Previously submitted to: JMIR Medical Education (no longer under consideration since Jan 09, 2023)
Date Submitted: Dec 26, 2022
Open Peer Review Period: Dec 26, 2022 - Jan 9, 2023
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
NOTE: This is an unreviewed Preprint
Warning: This is a unreviewed preprint (What is a preprint?). Readers are warned that the document has not been peer-reviewed by expert/patient reviewers or an academic editor, may contain misleading claims, and is likely to undergo changes before final publication, if accepted, or may have been rejected/withdrawn (a note "no longer under consideration" will appear above).
Peer review me: Readers with interest and expertise are encouraged to sign up as peer-reviewer, if the paper is within an open peer-review period (in this case, a "Peer Review Me" button to sign up as reviewer is displayed above). All preprints currently open for review are listed here. Outside of the formal open peer-review period we encourage you to tweet about the preprint.
Citation: Please cite this preprint only for review purposes or for grant applications and CVs (if you are the author).
Final version: If our system detects a final peer-reviewed "version of record" (VoR) published in any journal, a link to that VoR will appear below. Readers are then encourage to cite the VoR instead of this preprint.
Settings: If you are the author, you can login and change the preprint display settings, but the preprint URL/DOI is supposed to be stable and citable, so it should not be removed once posted.
Submit: To post your own preprint, simply submit to any JMIR journal, and choose the appropriate settings to expose your submitted version as preprint.
Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.
Effects of Elective Course on Personal, Professional, and Cross-Cultural Communication Skills Amongst Medical Graduates of Jordanian Medical Schools
ABSTRACT
Background:
Statistical analysis for the review of medical students of Jordanian medical schools regarding the clinical elective course. For example, where students tend to spend this period and to understand the impact of elective course on professional, personal and cultural levels from the participants' perspective and if it has long-term effects.
Objective:
The study aims to understand the effect of the clinical elective course (abroad or inside Jordan) on the medical students of Jordanian universities at professional, personal, and cultural levels. In addition to the long-term impacts. It also aims to explore the best possible ways to take advantage of this course.
Methods:
A quantitative cross-sectional study. A well-structured questionnaire was distributed through social media platforms targeting doctors and medical students who participated in national or international elective throughout their 6th-year medical school. A total of 385 participants (Mean age is 26.32± 4.072). All doctors and graduates of Jordanian medical schools (class of 2020 and earlier) were invited to participate.
Results:
Most of the participants had international elective (268) compared to (117) who took national elective. Participants rated cross-cultural development following elective among participants who had international elective with the highest mean score of 4.09 (± 0.941) out of 5, followed by personal development. On the professional level, 75% agreed or strongly agreed that elective improved their communication skills with patients.
Conclusions:
Elective provides an environment that prepares students to participate in clinical medicine and communicates professionally with patients and colleagues. Elective increases the level of self-confidence and self-dependence. Elective also has been shown to reinforce preferred speciality choices and elevate clinical compassion among medical students.
Citation
Request queued. Please wait while the file is being generated. It may take some time.
Copyright
© The authors. All rights reserved. This is a privileged document currently under peer-review/community review (or an accepted/rejected manuscript). Authors have provided JMIR Publications with an exclusive license to publish this preprint on it's website for review and ahead-of-print citation purposes only. While the final peer-reviewed paper may be licensed under a cc-by license on publication, at this stage authors and publisher expressively prohibit redistribution of this draft paper other than for review purposes.